Adult flag football underway, indoor soccer heats up
The Anna Maria Island Community Center’s summer adult flag football league is heading into its second week of action.
As expected, the standings are pretty tight this early in the season. Miller Electric Lions is the only undefeated team. Anna Maria Vacations Dolphins, Tyler’s Ice Cream Vikings, Slim’s Place Eagles and Poppo’s Taqueria 49ers follow in the standings with matching 2-1 records. Sugar Beach Digital Cowboys follow with a 1-2 record, while Sato Real Estate Giants and Jessie’s Island Store Fighting Irish are still in search of a first victory.
There were eight games played July 22 and July 23 and, while there were a few close contests, the game of the week undoubtedly was the 27-26 win by Anna Maria Vacations Dolphins as it slipped past Slim’s Place Eagles.
Ryan Moss led the Dolphin offense by completing 17 of 28 passes for 274 yards and four touchdown passes. Jay Hoffmeister was his favorite target, catching nine passes for 133 yards, including two touchdowns and an extra point. Jonathan Moss also had two touchdown receptions to go along with seven catches for 131 yards, while also adding an interception that he returned for a touchdown. Krys Kolbe completed the scoring with 2 extra points for the Dolphins.
KB Belton completed 16-of-20 passes for 193 yards and three touchdown passes on offense, while also taking an interception back for a touchdown on defense to lead the Eagles. Kyle Parsons caught a team-high seven passes for 70 yards, including a touchdown and an extra point, while also coming up with an interception on defense. Holly Belton scored one touchdown and caught four passes for 57 yards and Jeff Walker finished with three catches for 40 yards and a touchdown in the loss.
In other action July 22, Miller Electric Lions defeated Sato Real Estate Giants 28-24, Poppo’s Taqueria 49ers rolled past Jessie’s Fighting Irish 34-8 and Tyler’s Ice Cream Vikings edged Sugar Beach Digital Cowboys 20-14.
Action July 23 saw Poppo’s top Sato 26-20, Miller Electric cooled Tyler’s by a 27-20 score, Slim’s rolled past Jessie’s 31-20 and Sugar Beach Digital defeated Anna Maria Vacations 27-14.
Indoor soccer rolls indoors
Soccer in the center gym completed its third week with a bevy of games and end-to-end action in four age divisions.
There were no major changes in the 8-10 standings as West Coast Air Conditioning stayed on top with a 3-1 record, closely followed by 2-2 Signarama, while Beach Bums continues to look for that elusive first victory.
Bark Real Estate remains in control of the 11-13 division with a 3-0 record. Sugar Beach Digital is alone in second at 2-3, while the Feast stands third with a 1-3 record.
The 14-17 age group has Wash Family Construction on top of the standings with a 4-1 record, while 2-4 Salty Printing and 2-3 LaPensee Plumbing follow in the standings.
Action July 20 started with West Coast Air Conditioning edging Beach Bums by a 3-1 score behind two goals from Jeremiah Sculco and one goal from Payton Harlan. Max Higgins scored the lone goal for Beach Bums in the loss.
The second game of the evening was a 14-17 division matchup between Salty Printing and LaPensee Plumbing. LaPensee slipped past Salty by a 7-5 score behind three goals from Ryan Fellowes and two goals from James Richards. Robbie Fellowes and Dylan Joseph added a goal each for the win.
Meredith Roberts paced Salty Printing with two goals, while Shelby Morrow, Sydney Cornell and Conal Cassidy scored one goal each in the loss.
WCAC defeated Signarama by a 4-2 score to open the July 22 indoor action. Jeremiah Sculco scored two goals, while Isabella Russell and Payton Harlan scored one goal each in the victory.
Julian Lazzara and Mikey Coleman scored one goal each to lead Signarama in the loss.
In the final game of the evening, Wash Family Construction edged Salty Printing 6-5 in 14-17 division action behind three goals from Gavin Walker and two goals from Carter Reemelin. Dylan Joseph scored once to complete the scoring for the Wash players, who held a 4-0 halftime lead only to see a furious rally from Salty Printing.
Brianna Blethen scored two goals to lead Salty Printing, which also received goals from Shelby Morrow, Sydney Cornell and Meredith Roberts in the loss.
Bark Real Estate rolled past Sugar Beach Digital by an 11-6 score in 11-13 division play July 24. Ryan Joseph scored five goals to lead Bark, which also received four goals from Gavin Walker and a goal each from Preston Walker and Javier Riveria in the victory.
Tyler Brewer’s three goals and two goals from Yukio Kuroiwa paced Sugar Beach, which also received one goal from James Richards in the loss.
The final game of the evening saw Wash take on LaPensee in a 14-17 matchup. Carter Reemelin scored four goals to lead Wash to a 6-5 victory. Gavin Walker and Yukio Kuroiwa completed the scoring with a goal each.
Ryan and Robbie Fellowes scored two goals each to lead LaPensee, which also received one goal from Preston Walker in the loss.
News from the links
The women of the Key Royale Club played a nine-hole, individual-low-net golf match July 21 with a side game of “best poker hand” on their scorecard.
Lori Waggoner rode a birdie on the ninth hole on the way to a 6-under-par 26 to take first place in Flight A by two strokes over second-place finisher Liz Lang.
Sue Wheeler’s 3-under-par 29, which included a birdie on the ninth hole, gave her first place in Flight B. Kathy Porter and Janet Razze, who tied for second place with matching 2-under-par 30s, were one stroke back.
Porter won the poker hand with seven 5s, while Lang had a chipin on the fifth hole.
Horseshoe news
Two outright champs were crowned during last week’s horseshoe action at the Anna Maria City Hall horseshoe pits. On July 22, the team of Norm Good and Tim Sofran were the only team to earn the requisite three pool-play victories, earning them a stroll to the winner’s circle.
On July 24, the team of Steve Doyle and Hank Huyghe were outright champs, the only team to earn three pool-play victories.
Play gets underway at 9 a.m. every Wednesday and Saturday at the Anna Maria City Hall pits. Warmups begin at 8:45 a.m. followed by random team selection. There is no charge to play and everyone is welcome.